Athens News

Cardy Pennington, a fourth-grade student at Athens Academy, and several of her friends and schoolmates have created Valentine's Day cards, which they are selling to help the survivors of the earthquake in Haiti.

Development of the Medical College of Georgia's partnership with the University of Georgia is moving on schedule, Athens Campus Dean Barbara Schuster told members of the University System Board of Regents this morning.

Athens-Clarke police investigators are trying to figure out who intentionally set fire to an apartment near downtown Sunday afternoon while the resident was in an Atlanta hospital.

Dr. Leila Denmark turned 112 last week, and had more than a few birthday wishes sent her way.

The case against an Augusta correctional facility escapee who was charged with attacking a female jogger on a popular park has not gone to trial two years after the attack.

Family Counseling Services of Athens will host the third annual Mardi Gras Athens fundraiser from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday at The Melting Point.

Chief Deputy Shawn Burns shot through a clip on his Glock .40-caliber handgun at the Madison County Sheriff's Office firing range Wednesday morning, but not before he gave the neighboring animal shelter a heads-up. Elbert citizens want say on plant Elbert County commissioners plan to vote tonight whether to allow a private company to build a ...

The Athens Banner-Herald reports Saturday that deputies found the man's body at 8:45 a.m. Friday.

When Billy Dilworth started broadcasting from WNEG, Northeast Georgians didn't see much on TV they could identify with.

A woman cut a man's hand with a knife in East Athens on Thursday afternoon after he refused to give her 50 cents, Athens-Clarke police said.

An officer stopped a car for running a stop sign at Strong and North Lumpkin streets Thursday night and arrested two passengers when he found they had more than 40 grams of marijuana between them, Athens-Clarke police said.

Expanding the Athens-Clarke Animal Shelter would help animal control officers keep more stray dogs alive for longer and give pet owners a place to play with their pooches, county officials say.

If you bumped into Adam Young at an Olive Garden, you'd never peg him as a tween heartthrob.

Officers last week shut down a fencing ring operating out of a home in Northern Clarke County where people traded goods stolen in burglaries for drugs, Athens-Clarke police said.

I don't believe in curses. Over the years, many books have been written about troublesome film productions that were marked by bad luck, injury and tragedy - some going as far as to suggest these movies were hexed from the beginning.

An Athens man shot at a female driver after she rear-ended him early Wednesday at an intersection near downtown, Athens-Clarke police said.

A Jefferson family was left homeless Tuesday when an early-morning fire destroyed its mobile home in the 400 block of Harold Phillips Road, off Old Pendergrass Road.

Detectives are investigating a stabbing at an apartment complex Monday night in which the victim claims he accidentally hurt himself, Athens-Clarke police said.

It was a pleasure to see the Athens Banner-Herald publish Ed Tant columns two days in a row .

Georgia's weather forecasting groundhog is predicting an early spring. At 7:35 a.m. a Twitter posting from the Yellow River Game Ranch in Lilburn said Gen.